Data Engineer

• Job Summary:
• This is the contact point for the local team to work closely with the headquarter teams. We are seeking an experienced Senior Data Engineer to design, implement, and maintain our data infrastructure and pipelines. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in data engineering, big data technologies, and cloud platforms. You will work closely with data scientists, analysts, and other stakeholders to ensure efficient and reliable data processing and storage solutions and who has mind set things to done
• Key Responsibilities:
• Design, develop, and maintain scalable data pipelines and ETL processes
• Implement and optimize data storage solutions, including data warehouses and data lakes
• Collaborate with data scientists and analysts to understand data requirements and provide efficient data access
• Ensure data quality, consistency, and reliability across all data systems
• Develop and maintain data models and schemas
• Implement data security and access control measures
• Optimize query performance and data retrieval processes
• Evaluate and integrate new data technologies and tools
• Mentor junior data engineers and provide technical leadership
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to support data-driven decision-making

Data Team Lead – Senior Data Engineer, Good English

• Design, implement, test, and maintain production‑grade backend services and data pipelines in cloud environment
• Write clean, maintainable, and efficient code for large‑scale content ingestion, processing, and delivery
• Debug and resolve complex issues including data correctness, performance bottlenecks, and operational failures
• Participate in code reviews and contribute to shared libraries, reusable components, and internal tooling
• Build and operate pipelines processing high‑volume scholarly content, including XML and other semi‑structured formats
• Implement metadata extraction, transformation, validation, deduplication, and enrichment logic
• Handle imperfect inputs such as non‑standard schemas, missing fields, inconsistent source data, with encoding issues
• Implement ETL/ELT processes for structured and unstructured data
• Integrate internal systems with third-party platforms via APIs and middleware
• Implement data quality checks, automated testing, and observability to ensure data quality, consistency, and performance
• Optimize data pipelines and system performance across systems
• Implement automated workflows for content processing, validation, and policy enforcement
• Reduce manual operational steps through engineering automation
• Ensure compliance with China regulatory requirements, including Cybersecurity Law and PIPL
• Support audits through technical controls such as logging, lineage tracking, and access trails
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams and stakeholders
• Support system migrations, upgrades, and cloud adoption
• Monitor and troubleshoot data and integration issues
• Maintain documentation for data architecture and workflows
• Investigate incidents, perform root‑cause analysis, and implement permanent fixes

Senior Data Engineer, Content Management Systems

• Data Architect supports Chief Data Office by building a scalable, well structured, and AI ready data foundation.
• Design conceptual, logical, and physical data models for the enterprise data warehouse and data marts.
• Participate in defining data standards, modeling conventions, and reusable data patterns.
• Support dataset design for analytics, BI, and machine‑learning workloads.
• Design frameworks for metadata management, data governance, lineage tracking, and asset cataloging.
• Apply basic data mining techniques (profiling, clustering, outlier detection) to better understand source data and inform data model design.
• Use machine learning fundamentals to identify opportunities for optimization (e.g., workload prediction, query pattern analysis, intelligent partitioning).
• Work with data engineers, analysts, and business teams to deliver data requirements.
• Document technical designs, data dictionaries, and operational procedures.

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